

Mary Sibley, aged 32 and her husband Samuel, aged 36, were nearby neighbors of the parsonage and the meetinghouse. They lived on the south side of Whipple Hill, off present-day Hobart Street where the Clark Farm is today.
Mary Sibley’s role in the witchcraft delusion was a brief but important one. It was she who suggested the baking of a witch-cake to John Indian, an act of folk magic intended to discover who was tormenting the girls.